Sorious Samura

Sorious Samura (born 27 October 1963) is a Sierra Leoneanjournalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: Cry Freetown (2000) and Exodus from Africa (2001). The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999). The film won, among other awards, an Emmy Award and a Peabody. Exodus from Africa shows the harrowing effort by the best of young African male blood to break through to Europe via death- and danger-ridden paths from Sierra Leone and Nigeria, via Mali, the Sahara desert, Algeria, and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain.

In his recent two projects Living with Hunger and Living with Refugees (nominated for an Emmy award), he takes reality television to its extreme, becoming the central character in the films by living the lifestyle of an Ethiopian villager and Sudaneserefugee respectively; in doing this, he tries to break the boundary between "us" (the people watching on TV) and "them" (those before the camera) by becoming one of them (albeit for just a month). "Living with corruption", his latest documentary shown on CNN, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in Sierra Leone and Kenya, affecting mostly the poor.

Sorious Samura

Sorious Samura (born 27 October 1963) is a Sierra Leoneanjournalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: Cry Freetown (2000) and Exodus from Africa (2001). The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999). The film won, among other awards, an Emmy Award and a Peabody. Exodus from Africa shows the harrowing effort by the best of young African male blood to break through to Europe via death- and danger-ridden paths from Sierra Leone and Nigeria, via Mali, the Sahara desert, Algeria, and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain.

In his recent two projects Living with Hunger and Living with Refugees (nominated for an Emmy award), he takes reality television to its extreme, becoming the central character in the films by living the lifestyle of an Ethiopian villager and Sudaneserefugee respectively; in doing this, he tries to break the boundary between "us" (the people watching on TV) and "them" (those before the camera) by becoming one of them (albeit for just a month). "Living with corruption", his latest documentary shown on CNN, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in Sierra Leone and Kenya, affecting mostly the poor.

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KarimA.A ...Khan said, “Out of the nine cases filed, five include video evidence obtained from SoriousSamura, director and producer of the film, ‘Cry Freetown’ ... 1 ... SoriousSamura, an investigative journalist who produced the “Cry Freetown” film, said, he is willing to come forward and testify when the hearing starts. Samura said, “I refused when Charles Taylor came calling and when the Special Court came calling ... ....

Sierra LeoneTelegraph. 28 July 2016 ... If these allegations are true, they will merely add to the grotesque catalogue of corruption scandals president Koroma is unwilling to address, for political and self-preservation reasons ... I wonder when the ordinary people in my country will ever be able to benefit from our natural resources, instead of being cursed by them,” journalist SoriousSamura concluded in 2011 ... The Speaker, ... Dear Sir, ... Copy.....

Prompted by this story's mysterious claims and counter claims, reporters SoriousSamura and Ivan Okuda and producer ClivePatterson teamed up to find out who was really behind the violence that is dividing a community and the nation and to ask whether state agencies are more involved than they are letting on ... I work with SoriousSamura, the renowned ......